Sure, the packages change, but it?s still all Point A to Point B while fighting with lousy physics. Which is the other big flaw with Totally Reliable Delivery Service: it gets really repetitive really fast. While it may be fun once or twice, when it happens over and over again, the humour evaporates pretty quickly. One time, trying to get into a plane, I ended up rolling around beneath the wing, unable to do anything else. Sometimes I?d make it in, but just as frequently I?d phase through the vehicle entirely. Similarly, any time I tried getting into a vehicle - which is a must in this game, seeing as you have an open world full of deliveries to make - it was a hit-or-miss proposition. Like, one time I dropped a package off in the designated area, and my character ended up getting stuck as well. Unfortunately, there are plenty of times where the flailing and the falling feel more like a design flaw than something intended to make the game more enjoyable. On top of that, some of the packages are explosive, which means the game makes good use of its ragdoll physics. Much like Human Fall Flat or QWOP, you have far more control over your driver?s limbs than you would in most other games, and the resulting flailing is good for a laugh or two. You (and friends, if you want) control - in the loosest sense of the term - a klutzy delivery driver, and you have to try and deliver all kinds of packages from Point A to Point B. It?s not that the basic idea isn?t fun - it is. Where a game like Goat Simulator occasionally reached some surprisingly impressive highs if you stuck with it long enough, with Totally Reliable Delivery Service, you?ll find that the whole thing has diminishing returns pretty quickly. That said, I think Totally Reliable Delivery Service comes a lot closer to that line than Goat Simulator ever did. Like Goat Simulator years ago, it?s broken in a lot of ways…but it?s intentionally broken, which makes it difficult to tell where the line is between bad on purpose and just plain bad. It?s hard to review a game like Totally Reliable Delivery Service.
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